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Drop Zone: Review - TV Guide
December 09 1994
John Badham's DROP ZONE successfully transposes POINT BREAK to the world of sky-diving. While star Wesley Snipes hasn't yet mastered the insouciant delivery that 90s action flicks seem to demand, the film's action set-pieces are effective and the macho mystique of the skydiving subculture is appealingly sketched.
Aboard a commercial airliner, U.S. Marshall Pete Nessip (Snipes) and his brother Terry (a beefed-up Malcolm-Jamal Warner) are escorting criminal computer wizard Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter) to a high-security prison. When an apparent terrorist hijack attempt blows a hole in the plane, through which Leedy and the terrorists, as well as Terry, are sucked out, a devastated Nessip is blamed for overreacting and forced to turn in his badge. He soon begins to suspect that the assault may have been an elaborate prison break. Meanwhile, ex-DEA loose cannon and renegade skydiver Ty Moncrief (Gary Busey) is revealed as the mastermind behind the coup, which culminated in the first-ever parachute jump from a commercial jet at 30,000 feet. He plans to use Leady to hack into the DEA mainframe computer in Washington, auctioning off the names of undercover agents to drug cartels worldwide.
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